16 december 2022
In 2011, the KNIR and the SSBAR (Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma) launched a major project of research and valorisation on the Roman neighbourhood of Testaccio. Modern Testaccio is an urban landscape in flux, which poses major challenges to its...
16 december 2022
In close collaboration with the Archaeological Service of Rome, the KNIR Santa Prisca Project intends to unlock and re-examine the legacy data of the first Dutch excavations in Italy, beneath the church of Santa Prisca on the Aventine hill. These excavations, directed...
16 december 2022
The Mapping the Via Appia project is a multi-disciplinary research project that aims to document, study and valorise the archaeological remains in and around the fifth mile of the Via Appia. The Via Appia, ‘Queen of Roads’, became a hallmark of the political and...
16 december 2022
The library of the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) hosts a rich collection of travel guides and topographical descriptions focused on Italy and Rome in particular, featuring volumes dating from the sixteenth century onwards. This collection partly...
16 december 2022
Ever since it was founded in 1904, the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) has conducted research on Netherlandish artists in Italy, particularly in the early modern period. Still authoritative publications by KNIR staff members Hoogewerff and Orbaan have...
